Mary Curtin
Description Arie Jan van Roon has served as a director of the Company since our inception. From January 2000 to the present, he has served as the managing partner of TransTax LLP, a Swiss-based private wealth management firm. The firm provides financial advisory services to high net worth investors and family offices principally within the European Union. In January 2007, he established Pure Glow Finance Limited of which he is the Managing Director as well as the sole shareholder, with the same activities as TransTax LLP and also the beneficial owner and investment advisor of Noble Investment Fund Limited, one of our principal shareholders. Prior to founding this firm, from 1984 to 2000, Mr. van Roon established van Roon Partners, Ltd., a private equity and advisory firm with an emphasis on investment in distressed, turn around and special situations with a geographic focus on Europe and across a wide range of industries. In addition to investment management experience, during this period he also developed operational experience in his capacity as acting interim CEO for investee companies in the consumer goods, airline and service industries including Girmi spa, an Italian industrial firm, Intair GMBH, an airline handling company based in Germany, and Aerolloyd, a German airline. In 1990, Mr. van Roon entered into a joint venture arrangement with US-based Quantum Development Corporation, a boutique venture capital firm specializing in early stage high tech and pharmaceutical companies. In connection with this activity, from January 2000 to May 2000 he acted as interim CEO of Alyn Corporation, a NASDAQ listed innovative materials firm. Mr. van Roon has never been employed by any of the above companies and has always acted as a consultant or owner. Mr. van Roon is a Dutch citizen who lives in Lugano, Switzerland and in Milan, Italy. He obtained a doctoral degree (Drs) from Erasmus Rotterdam University in 1971, where his thesis centered on Bayesian Statistics. To view the detailed information, you need to SUBSCRIBE with us. |
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